Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2025-07-15
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Alice-Mary Higgins (IND), National University of Ireland

I will be brief because I am keen to move to later in the Bill and be able to get to vote. Amendments Nos. 38 to 40, inclusive, deal with the use-it-or-lose-it principle. If people are granted these extensions, they should be required to act upon them. If people are getting extensions for one or two developments and have not commenced, they should not be given permission for delays on all their developments unless they follow through. Someone who gets an extension on one development should start building that before going looking for an extension on another development. These are all attempts to ensure these measures do not reward speculation, as I am concerned they will.

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Sitting date: 2025-07-15